by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A lover’s epigram wishing Enna would either truly love him or stop pretending, plus a drinking pun contrasting Spanish wine and Rhine ‘gripes’; unrequited love and wine.
Connections
Motifs: Wine and Drink Themes & Concepts: Unrequited Frustrated Love, Romantic Love, Satire of Society Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
This way or that, ye Powers above me!
I of my grief were rid —
Did Enna either really love me,
Or cease to think she did.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 59. Included in Essays, &c., iii.
987. First collected in P. W., 1885, ii. 364.
In Spain, that land of Monks and Apes,
The thing called Wine doth come from grapes,
But on the noble River Rhine,
The thing called Gripes doth come from Wine!
First published in Memoirs of C. M. Young, 1871, p. 221. First
collected in 1893.